Weight Management Program for Patients With First Episode Psychosis

"Weight management program that involve the patient AND a family member or a care taker. Families will receive a 12-week FBT adapted for first episode psychosis. This will be delivered in 12 weekly meetings with a trained case manager and two eating plan education sessions. Both the patient with psychosis and parents are targeted for eating and activity/exercise change to ensure a change in the shared family environment, which will also help weight control in both sets of participants, as well as medical issues that accompany obesity, including glycemic control, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. If parents are not overweight/obese, they will still target improved health behaviors. They will learn about GREEN, YELLOW, and RED foods (healthy vs. unhealthy foods), energy density, glycemic index of foods, reducing serving sizes, eating less, healthy lifestyle and programmed activity programs and recording their diets and activity."